Art Box #3

Here is another Art Box for a auction for the High School. The first art box I made was for a auction for the grade school and sold so good that I was asked immediately for another one for the High School. I used walnut and maple with walnut splines. You may notice that I use walnut a lot. The reason for that is when I purchased my house and shop the previous owner had slabs of walnut stored above the wood shop. Each board is about 12”-14” wide and about 10 feet long. I had about 20 slabs or so. I thought I hit the mother load but I soon notice when he cut it, most boards are right at 3/4” thick ROUGH. So with that said you might start seeing a lot of Palm boxes due to the fact they only need 1/2” thick lumber.

I followed fellow Lumber Jocks “Andy” blog. It is simple to make the box. I made a spline jig for the splines. I use a 4” disk grinder with a sanding wheel to made the initial curves. I then come back and round the sharp edges down with a palm sander. I would look at Andy’s blog first to get a general ideal of the project. The most important thing I have learned so far is wood selection and draw out your curves with a pencil to follow.